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Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11
Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation
Häftad, 2015
512 kr
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Saw, Hostel, The Devil’s Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label “torture porn.” Since David Edelstein coined the term for a New York magazine article a few years after 9/11, many critics have speculated that these movies simply reflect iconic images, …
War Is not a Game
The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
Av Nan Levinson
Häftad, 2016
254 kr
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War Is Not a Game tells the story of this new soldiers’ antiwar movement, showing why it was born, how it quickly grew, where it has struggled, what it accomplished, and how it continues to resonate in the national conversation about our military and our wars. Nan Levinson reveals the individuals …
Postfeminist War
Women in the Media-Military-Industrial Complex
Häftad, 2018
396 kr
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Media representations and practices that have emerged out of contemporary wars have been well documented by a wide array of books and articles. These treatments, however, have been less attentive to how cultural constructions of military personnel and war itself figure in the depiction of the …
Postfeminist War
Women in the Media-Military-Industrial Complex
Inbunden, 2018
1189 kr
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Media representations and practices that have emerged out of contemporary wars have been well documented by a wide array of books and articles. These treatments, however, have been less attentive to how cultural constructions of military personnel and war itself figure in the depiction of the …
Other Air Force
U.S. Efforts to Reshape Middle Eastern Media Since 9/11
Häftad, 2016
454 kr
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Winner of the 2019 Alpha Sigma Nu Book AwardAs it seeks to win the hearts and minds of citizens in the Muslim world, the United States has poured millions of dollars into local television and radio programming, hoping to generate pro-American currents on Middle Eastern airwaves. However, as this …
Other Air Force
U.S. Efforts to Reshape Middle Eastern Media Since 9/11
Inbunden, 2016
1794 kr
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Winner of the 2019 Alpha Sigma Nu Book AwardAs it seeks to win the hearts and minds of citizens in the Muslim world, the United States has poured millions of dollars into local television and radio programming, hoping to generate pro-American currents on Middle Eastern airwaves. However, as this …
Looking Back on the Vietnam War
Twenty-first-Century Perspectives
Av Brenda M. Boyle, Jeehyun Lim
Häftad, 2016
454 kr
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More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in …
Looking Back on the Vietnam War
Twenty-first-Century Perspectives
Av Brenda M. Boyle, Jeehyun Lim
Inbunden, 2016
1794 kr
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More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in …
Imperial Affects
Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema
Av Jonna Eagle
Häftad, 2017
468 kr
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Imperial Affects is the first sustained account of American action-based cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films through the Hollywood Western and the late-century action cinema, imperialist violence and mobility have been produced as sites of both visceral pleasure and moral virtue. …
Imperial Affects
Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema
Av Jonna Eagle
Inbunden, 2017
1737 kr
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Imperial Affects is the first sustained account of American action-based cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films through the Hollywood Western and the late-century action cinema, imperialist violence and mobility have been produced as sites of both visceral pleasure and moral virtue. …
At War
The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Av David Kieran, Edwin A. Martini
Häftad, 2018
512 kr
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The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life-from the formation of racial …
In/visible War
The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
Av Jon Simons, John Louis Lucaites
Häftad, 2017
468 kr
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In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between …
In/visible War
The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
Av Jon Simons, John Louis Lucaites
Inbunden, 2017
1794 kr
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In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between …
Hollywood's Hawaii
Race, Nation, and War
Av Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
Häftad, 2017
453 kr
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Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii and the South Pacific figure prominently in the U.S. national imagination. Hollywood’s Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry’s …
Hollywood's Hawaii
Race, Nation, and War
Av Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
Inbunden, 2017
1849 kr
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Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii and the South Pacific figure prominently in the U.S. national imagination. Hollywood’s Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry’s …
Warring Over Valor
How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Av Simon Wendt
Häftad, 2018
425 kr
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By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. The book offers …
Warring Over Valor
How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Av Simon Wendt
Inbunden, 2018
1794 kr
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By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. The book offers …
Crash Course
From the Good War to the Forever War
Häftad, 2024
290 kr
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Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America’s victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world-wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States, forcing the nation into a …
War Without Bodies
Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War
Häftad, 2022
310 kr
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Historically the bodies of civilians are the most damaged by the increasing mechanization and derealization of warfare, but this is not reflected in the representation of violence in popular media. In War Without Bodies, author Martin Danahay argues that the media in the United States in particular …
War Without Bodies
Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War
Inbunden, 2022
1798 kr
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Historically the bodies of civilians are the most damaged by the increasing mechanization and derealization of warfare, but this is not reflected in the representation of violence in popular media. In War Without Bodies, author Martin Danahay argues that the media in the United States in particular …
In the Crossfire of History
Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South
Häftad, 2022
358 kr
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In the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad in 2018 was a tribute to honor women whose bodies have been …
In the Crossfire of History
Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South
Inbunden, 2022
1746 kr
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In the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad in 2018 was a tribute to honor women whose bodies have been …
Unguarded Border
American Émigrés in Canada During the Vietnam War
Häftad, 2023
367 kr
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The United States is accustomed to accepting waves of migrants who are fleeing oppressive conditions and political persecution in their home countries. But in the 1960s and 1970s, the flow of migration reversed as over fifty thousand Americans fled across the border to Canada to resist military …
Unguarded Border
American Émigrés in Canada During the Vietnam War
Inbunden, 2023
1794 kr
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The United States is accustomed to accepting waves of migrants who are fleeing oppressive conditions and political persecution in their home countries. But in the 1960s and 1970s, the flow of migration reversed as over fifty thousand Americans fled across the border to Canada to resist military …
Warscapes
Mediating Militarized Environments
Av Cortland Rankin, Brady Fletcher
Häftad, 2026
375 kr
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What do we see when we look at a battlefield? How do we come to understand environments as battlefields in the first place? What happens to our perception of war when we focus on the physical spaces of conflict? Warscapes is the first collection to pursue answers to such questions by considering …
Warscapes
Mediating Militarized Environments
Av Cortland Rankin, Brady Fletcher
Inbunden, 2026
1506 kr
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What do we see when we look at a battlefield? How do we come to understand environments as battlefields in the first place? What happens to our perception of war when we focus on the physical spaces of conflict? Warscapes is the first collection to pursue answers to such questions by considering …
